C. — ** that hath become the head of the oomer." * For in the

E^[7ptiaii8, the initiated priest of Apollo and learned comparative mytholpgist continues : '' The Qreeks say that * son ' {616^) comes from 'iwater' (08aror) and 'to moisten' (So'cu), and they call Dionysua 'HySs' (fhif) as Lord of the Moist (hpat) Nature, he being the same as Osiiis." StoU in Roscher^s Lex. (sub w.) says that "Byes'* and "HyS" were respectively designations of Dionysus and Semele, and that the meaning is the "Moistener" and the *' Moistened " (references loe. eit,). The nymphs who reared Bacchus were also called Hyades (Phereeydsiy 46 ; p. 106, ed. Stun). Hyes was also a popular epithet of Zeus as god of lain. See also Lobeck, AgUwphamug^ 762 and 1046 ff. ; Antcd.^ Bekk^ p. 202: Some say that Hyes^Attis, others that Hyes=s Dionysus ; ** for Zeus poured (So'c) ambrosia upon him." One of the names of Bacchus was Ambrosia (Pherecy., Und, ; Non., xxL 80). I would therefore suggest that the mystic cry " Hye Kye" meant
^ Ps. xix. 4. That is the Sound (sWord) of the Heavens ; qaoted also in Rom. x. 18.
* Cf, Od,^ zxiv. 6. And compare also Hamlet^ I. i . :
^ The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets."
s Od^ibuLfL
* Ps. cxviii. 22. Quoted in Matt. zxi. 42 ; Mark xiL 10 ; Luke XX. 17 ; Acts iv. 11.
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''Head" ii tlie exprMnve Bnin^ of tlie EMenca, from which [Bnun] " erery fatherhood " * haa ita ciipi eiion —
J. — which " I inaert in the foundatioii of Zion."' [By this] (H. he says) he^ meana, allegorically, the plasm of man. For the Adamas who is " inserted " is [the inner man, and the " foundations of Zion " are^ the '' teeth " — the *" fence of the teeth," as Homer says — the Wall and Palisade * in which is the inner man, fallen into it from the Primal Man, the Adamas Above —[the Stone] "cut without hands "^ cutting it, and brought down into the plasm of forgetfulness, the earthy, clayey [plasm].
(15) S. And (H. he says that) they followed Him squeaking^ — the souls, the Logos.
"Thus they went squeaking together; and he led
them on, Hermes, the guileless, down the dark ways." * That is, (H. he says) [He led them] into the eternal
lands free from all guile. For where (H. he says)
went they?
(16) "They passed by the streams of Ocean, and by the White Bock,
By the Gates of the Sun, and the People of Dreams." ^^ For He (H. he says) is Ocean — "birth-causing of
> Taken by C. from a and J., § SO ; but I think that C. haa miaaed the true meaning of the " oomer-stone" in the brain.
* Of. Eph. iii. 16.
' Is. zxyiiL 18— reading irriecm for ififidkxm of LXX. ; quoted alao in Eph. iL SO and 1 Pet ii. 7. « 8e. Isaiah. ^ Completion of the lacuna by R.
* X«^*M« — a Uwhnical term also for the *' Qnoatic " supernal Horos or Boundary.
» Dan. il 16.
* Compare the "complaints of the aonls'' in the K.K. fragmenta. •|0«i.,xxiT. 9f.
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gods and birth-causing of men " ^ — flowing and ebbing for ever, now up and now down.
J. When Ocean flows down (H. he says), it is the birth-causing of men ; and when [it flows] up, towards the Wall and Palisade, and the " White Sock/' it is the birth-causing of gods.
This (H. he says) is what is written :
'"I have said ye are Gods and all Sons of the Highest ' * — ^if ye hasten to flee from Egjrpt and get you beyond the Sed Sea into the Desert"; that is, from the intercourse below to the Jerusalem Above, who is the Mother of the living.^ '' But if ye turn back again into Egypt" — that is, to the intercourse below — "'ye shall die like men.'" «
For (H. he says) all the generation below is subject to death, but the [birth] begotten above is superior to death.